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Calling all trustafarians of a discretionary trustu

John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,396 Forumite

27 March 2012 at 6:43PM in Cutting tax

Am I right in thinking that the nice Mr Osborne is also cutting the income tax rate of discretionary trusts from 50% to 45%.

Mind you the taxation of trusts is going to be "simplified" by the 2013 budget and we all now know what that means don't we granny?

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